Word: useless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...afraid I shall never be able to accomplish anything sensational, but tackling the Alps will be a relief after the terrible strain we are feeling now. No. I won't talk politics! All my prophecies have been so utterly wrong that it is useless to indulge in more guesswork...
After the Italian conquest, Abebe Arragia thought rebellion was useless, persuaded the two sons of his old friend, Ras Kassa, to stop agitating and perform the: ceremony of submission. When the Italians executed Ras Kassa's sons, Abebe Arragia was furious. He slipped out of Addis Ababa disguised as a Coptic priest. Gathering a few thousand rebel warriors who can move through the mountains like shadows, he preyed on Italian supply trains, and isolated outposts so savagely that the Italians put a price of 100,000 talers ($50,000) on his head, sent an expedition...
...have been living on lies," declared Interior Minister Adrien Marquet to his countrymen in announcing the forthcoming trials as part of an extensive domestic moral purge. "The hour of truth has sounded. . . . The rapidity of our catastrophe upset you and then you sought those responsible. It was useless to hunt widely. . . . The day they come to trial, our dead will sit on the prosecutor's bench. In the name of justice, those guilty of such political errors and military ignorance will be punished...
...could hardly hope to escape detection. . . . They would cover so much sea area that our outpost vessels must run into them." The Guardian took comfort in the belief that the harbors at Boulogne, Calais, Zeebrugge and the Hook of Holland are so clogged with war debris as to be useless...
Last week one big obstacle to new plant was detected and removed. The obstacle: the long memories of manufacturers and investors, reluctant to put money into new plant that may be as useless five or six years hence as the Hog Island Shipyard was in 1923. The U. S. Treasury took the rap for Hog Island. Why should the stockholders of Packard Motor Car Co., for example, take the rap for $30,000,000 of new equipment which, after building enough Rolls-Royce plane engines to beat Hitler, might find its market destroyed by peace...